Posted on 02/25/2002 7:35:42 AM PST by FresnoDA
These people should never have the word 'parent' applied to them. Even wild animals defend their young.
The search is still going on and I honestly don't know how many FReepers are searching in California.
I know we ARE searching for an answer on this forum and other forums as to how this terrible crime came to be.
Peace...sw
It happens way too often...even to people who lead perfect lives.
What do you do with this? Would you convict a man -- any man -- of kidnapping, let alone murder on that evidence. I'm an old prosecutor (who has never defended a crook) and yet that gives me pause.
There are at least 3 scenarios possible:
1. Westerfield breaks in while Mrs. VD is out partying and Mr. VD is [unknown], kidnaps girl, takes her to RV, kills her, then leaves her in RV and goes to bar to socialize with Mrs. VD and friends to establish alibi. Then after bar, he drives to desert and disposes of body. Problems: Where is Mr. VD? Westerfield would have to be REAL cool customer to commit such a murder and go off to bar, not knowing when little girl might be discovered missing.
2. Westerfield goes to bar and socializes with Mrs. VD and learns of forthcoming 'adult party'. Realizing that this means that VD's and their 'guests' will be incommunicado in the garage, Westerfield enters house, takes girl, etc etc. May explain why Mrs VD "can't remember" dancing with Westerfield, while he does. Why didn't parents lock house and turn on burglar alarm if they knew (as they did under this scenario) that they would be "occupied" in the garage? Again would require Westerfield to have the nerves of a cat burglar to pull it off (going into small house with 6 adults in proximity).
3. Westerfield is either at adult party with Mr and Mrs or is called to it after they (or guests or some combination) kill (perhaps accidentally) little girl and Westerfield agrees to dispose of body. This would make Westerfield an accessory after the fact but put him in difficult spot without some corroboration of parents' involvement. This would explain all physical evidence but not make Westerfield guilty of murder. Charge could be designed to turn Westerfield. This also explains the bizarrely aloof behavior of Mr and Mrs.
One thing (one thing?) we don't know (or at least I haven't seen) is much about timing, i.e. what time does Westerfield arrive at state park versus when Mrs. leaves the bar with 4 "friends". None of these scenarios are satisfying to me and there are none I would want to try and make a murder conviction on -- without more.
One thing for sure this case will take the OJ slot for the foreseeable future.
I searched for Danny Rice for two days in SW Miami until the news of his dismembered body being found in pails reached us on the radio.
People who do these things to little kids are sick, and deserve to die.
The person with whom I am fighting on this thread is very succesfully drawing attention away from the murderer, and focusing it on the parents, holding them to blame.
Don't you wonder what his motive is?
sw
I haven't followed ever word of your "fight" but the parents should be the focus of some attention. There is a huge difference between losing track of a kid in a mall, and leaving a seven year old unsupervised for most of a day. It's not the lifestyle itself, but the consequenses of putting self interest above any reasonable definition of parenting.
While I do believe Westerfield is guilty, I do think the parents' negligence helped to make her abduction possible.
It's said that the perfect crime--from start to finish--can be committed by only one person. Get others involved, the reasoning goes, and sooner or later someone will crack. Perhaps Thomas Capano, in his privileged sphere, was unaware of that underworld wisdom. Perhaps his hubris got in the way. Perhaps he never thought his own family would turn on him.Capano, 48, a once prominent attorney and power broker in the insular world of Delaware politics, was arrested last week in Wilmington and charged with first-degree murder, capping a 17-month investigation into the disappearance of Anne Marie Fahey, 30, the scheduling secretary for Governor Thomas Carper. Investigators have long asserted that Capano, the last to see Fahey when they dined together on June 27, 1996, killed her in a rage when she tried to end their secret three-year affair. But it was not until last week, when Capano's younger brothers Louis and Gerard provided new information, that there was enough ammunition to level charges in the case.
I don't think it's to draw us away from Westerfield, rather to draw attention to unusual circumstances and conditions which might have contributed to the child being kidnapped while the parents were "clueless" the poor little girl wasn't sleeping in her bed. At least that is my motive.
Look how you are so passionately reacting to this. YOU say YOU would be out searching for her, and have done this for others in the past. I believe you. So then, how can you excuse the parents who as far as I know, have NOT joined ONE search party to look for Danielle? You would have...
sw
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